Recovery partition?

[ferrarr]

I just noticed, after upgrading Sierra to High Sierra, my Recovery partition is no longer on my drive, has anyone else noticed this? I don’t know if I did anything wrong, or if this is a new thing that just happened? So, I just wiped my drive, and am doing a fresh install now. I will restore from Time Machine and hope the Recovery partition will be back.

 

[chscag]

Hey Bob:

Did you try to boot to Recovery? Yes, the Recovery Partition is no longer there in High Sierra the way it used to be as was in Sierra. When you now boot using Command + R, the machine boots to Recovery Utilities and mounts a disk image of around 2 GB which includes necessary utilities. The necessary utilities include Terminal, Setting a password, Disk Utility, Time Machine restore, reinstall, etc.

I just booted to the new Disk Image Recovery and ran Disk Utility. Actually, this method is faster and works the same as the older Recovery Partition.

 

[ferrarr]

Ah, ok, that makes sense then. I totally forgot the “command+R” and was trying “option” instead. Oh well, I was going to do a clean install next week anyway. Thanks for reminding me. I was worried Apple was doing away with something else I took for granted.

 

[IWT]

Nice find Charlie. I bet very few folk know that. I hadn’t read anything about that in any of the High Sierra blurb.

Ian

 

[ashleykaryl]

I just noticed, after upgrading Sierra to High Sierra, my Recovery partition is no longer on my drive, has anyone else noticed this? I don’t know if I did anything wrong, or if this is a new thing that just happened? So, I just wiped my drive, and am doing a fresh install now. I will restore from Time Machine and hope the Recovery partition will be back.

I noticed the same thing and the only way to access recovery drive is by pressing cmd + r. Strangely I cannot get this to work with a wireless keyboard and mouse, because it keeps asking me to switch them on before it can reach the disk utility etc.

 

[ferrarr]

I noticed the same thing and the only way to access recovery drive is by pressing cmd + r. Strangely I cannot get this to work with a wireless keyboard and mouse, because it keeps asking me to switch them on before it can reach the disk utility etc.

Yeah, I am using Apple’s 2009 Wireless Keyboard with my mini. I find, when I need to use a key combo when starting up, after the gong sound starts, I press the key, let it go, and then press it again, all before the gong sound stops. I usually have good luck with it, although with High Sierra, yesterday, there were issues using it.

 

[ashleykaryl]

I'm on a mid 2010 Mac Pro, but it's a new magic keyboard purchased a few weeks ago. The new ones are better in this regard, but in this instance it starts the process towards loading the recovery drive, until a certain point where some animated graphics turn on advising me turn on the keyboard and mouse. This wasn't an issue under Sierra.

 

[ferrarr]

Yeah, yesterday, that came up when I was trying to to do a clean install of High Sierra. I was able to get it to be recognized, by pressing shift, multiple times, then it gave me the code to connect to use to connect the keyboard. It’s been fine since then, but I haven’t had to go into Recovery again. I will try later today, to see if the issue is still there.

 

[chscag]

Nice find Charlie. I bet very few folk know that. I hadn’t read anything about that in any of the High Sierra blurb.

Ian

Another one of Apple's little surprises. However, this newer way of doing a recovery seems faster than the old way. I'm wondering now if internet recovery still works for those users who need it?

 

[ferrarr]

People will always NEED access to internet Recovery, when drives die. No other way around it. Always need access to another disk. Some users will make bootable USB disks, but most will not even think about it.